Recent Artistic ActivitieS
ANTENNAE: a fragment // Music composed by Aleksandra Vrebalov. Performed by Kronos Quartet and Monk Hierotheos. Kronos’ first new work created in isolation was a collaboration with artists in Serbia. // Online Premiere: April 15, 2020
Salam Aleykom // Music composed by Sahba Aminikia. Performed by Kronos Quartet // Online Premiere: May 6, 2020
Kronos Makes Sounds with Stuff // Music composed by Danny Clay. Performed by Kronos Quartet // Online Premiere: May 18, 2020
Peace be Till (excerpt) // Music composed by Zachary Watkins. Film edited by Evan Neff. Performed by Kronos Quartet and featuring Dr. Clarence B. Jones // Online Premiere: June 5, 2020
Black Angels Turns 30 // Music composed by George Crumb. Video by Robert Edridge-Waks. Produced by Nonesuch Records to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the release of the album. // Online Premiere: June 28, 2020
Pohoda in the Air // Pohoda, Slovakia. A live performance presented in real time on line as part of Slovakia’s Pohoda Festival. After three months of experimentation, Kronos’ partnership with Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) led to the first live streamed networked performance from four separate locations thanks to JackTrip, a free, open-source program that supports bidirectional, high quality, uncompressed audio streaming with any number of channels. // Online Premiere: July 11, 2020
Salam Aleykom (Kronos and Friends) // Music composed by Sahba Aminikia. Performed by Kronos with Sahba Aminikia (Iran/USA); San Francisco Girls Chorus (USA) with Valérie Sainte-Agathe, director (France/USA); Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat, (Iran/USA); Vân-Ánh Võ (Vietnam/USA); Wu Man (China/USA); The Living Earth Show (USA); Soo Yeon Lyuh (South Korea/USA); and many other artists from around the world (visit link for full list). // Online Premiere: July 11, 2020
Requiem for Justice Festival // Beirut, Lebanon. An online festival of artists and activists from around the world, which featured the premiere of Angélica Negrón’s new 50 for the Future work Marejada, written for and performed in a video conferencing environment. // Online Premiere: August 28, 2020
Marejada // Music composed by Angélica Negrón for Kronos’ 50 for the Future. Performed by Kronos with visual art by Justin Favela. // Full Educational Module Released Online: August 31, 2020
Knock – Part I // Music composed by Joan Jeanrenaud for Kronos’ 50 for the Future. Performed by Maria Kochetkova with music recorded by Kronos. Choreography by Sebastian Kloborg. Directed by Marcel Zyskind. // Online Premiere: September 18, 2020
Reflections on Blue Lake // Music composed by Wu Man and arranged by Kronos. Performed by Wu Man and Kronos. Paintings by Wu Guoting. Directed by Braden King with animation by Oliver King. Debuted as part of the Philharmonic Society of Orange County’s Moon Festival. // Online Premiere: October 1, 2020
Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall // Yokohama, Japan. “Earth Whistlers” and “Prayer Central,” two movements from Terry Riley’s epic Sun Rings, recorded by Kronos in the Bay Area and the Yaeyama-Gumi chorus in Japan. The film was screened for a live audience in Yokohama, Japan. // Presented: October 3, 2020 (limited online release, February-March 2021)
Long Time Passing: Kronos & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger
A new cd and vinyl release on Smithsonian Folkways featuring music popularized and inspired by Pete Seeger performed by Kronos with Sam Amidon, Maria Arnal, Brian Carpenter, Nikky Finney, Lee Knight, Meklit, Aoife O’Donovan, and students from San Francisco Unified School District. // Release: October 9, 2020
Porches // Music composed by Alison Brown. Performed by Alison Brown and Kronos. Debuted as part of the FreshGrass Festival’s 10th Anniversary online celebration at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA). // Presented: October 14, 2020
Diorama // Music composed by Nicole Lizée and Jlin for Kronos’ 50 for the Future. Performed by Maria Kochetkova and Daniil Simkin with music recorded by Kronos. Directed and choreographed by Sebastian Kloborg. A co-production with the Staatsballett Berlin. // Online Premiere: October 15, 2020
Lux Aeterna from Requiem For A Dream // Music composed by Clint Mansell. Performed by Kronos at Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall to mark the 20th anniversary of the release of the Darren Aronofsky film Requiem for a Dream (Lionsgate). // Online Premiere: October 16, 2020
Campaign Songs #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7 // Music by various composers, arranged by Michael Gordon and performed by Kronos. These one-minute videos were conceived by Michael Gordon and David Harrington, who collaborated with video artists Josh Higgason and Christopher Ash to create them. // Online Premieres: October 16 – November 2, 2020
The President Sang Amazing Grace // Music composed by Zoe Mulford and arranged by Jacob Garchik. Performed by Meklit and Kronos Quartet at Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall. This piece was described in The New York Times by Thomas Friedman in his final pre-election column (October 27, 2020), and has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times. // Online Premiere: October 22, 2020
San Diego Asian Film Festival // San Diego, California. This online film festival included the world premiere of Valerie Soe’s Auntie Sewing Squad: Radical Care in the Time of Coronavirus, a short film featuring Pulsation, composed by Susie Ibarra for Kronos’ 50 for the Future. The film was a collaboration between Kronos and the Auntie Sewing Squad — a volunteer collective making masks for vulnerable communities and essential workers. // Online Premiere: October 23, 2020
Tune In Festival: Program 1 // Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. A concert celebrating the legacy of Pete Seeger recorded live at Royce Hall with Kronos Quartet and guest artists Tehillah Alphonso, Jolie Holland, Lee Knight, Tonoccus McClain, Meklit, and Tonality, conducted by Alexander Lloyd Blake. // Online Premiere: October 28, 2020
Tune In Festival: Program 4 // Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. A newly created collaboration — ‘Weaving: Over/Under/Around/Through’ — recorded live at Royce Hall with Kronos, violinist Vijay Gupta and videos from the archive of the Los Angeles Poverty Department. This new work, created during the pandemic for this festival, featured pieces from Kronos’ 50 for the Future, the music of Bach, and other works that responded to stories told by members of LA’s Skid Row community. // Online Premiere: October 31, 2020
Testimony // Stanford Live. A program recorded in Bing Concert Hall exploring social justice issues (The President Sang Amazing Grace, Strange Fruit, Alabama, and other works), music from 50 for the Future, and the spoken-word responses of young Bay Area poets Anouk Yeh, Cecelia “Cece” Jordan, Jarvis Subia, Zouhair Mussa, and Darnell “DeeSoul” Carson. // Online Premiere: October 29, 2020 (Presented free on demand for one week, and now available to members of Stanford Live)
Live with Carnegie Hall: Long Time Passing // Carnegie Hall. A program celebrating the work and legacy of musician/activist Pete Seeger, featuring interviews and performances by Kronos and guests along with an archival performance of Seeger at Carnegie Hall. This program was viewed more than 80,000 times in the first week it was available online. // Online Premiere: November 12, 202
Klang-ART Vision Festival // Germany. A program which features newly recorded and archival videos of Kronos performing repertoire of the Americas. // Online Premiere: November 14, 2020
MOMENT 2020 // Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles. A program featuring a new work for quartet and haegeum, composed by Soo Yeon Lyuh and performed by the composer and Kronos. The program also features additional works and a discussion. // Online Premiere: November 19, 2020
Marejada // Music composed by Angélica Negrón for Kronos’ 50 for the Future. A live Zoom performance by students from Oakland School for the Arts (OSA Chamber Orchestra). // Online Premiere: December 14, 2020
Silent Cranes // Music by Mary Kouyoumdjian. Performed by Kronos with poetry and spoken word by David Barsamian, and original projection design by Laurie Olinder. // Online Premiere: December 16, 2020
Music of the Birds // Music composed by Sahba Aminikia. Performed by Kronos with San Francisco Girls Chorus Premier Ensemble & Chorus School (Valérie Sainte-Agathe, Artistic Director), The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the Sirkhane Social Circus School (Mardin, Turkey). // Online Premiere: December 20, 2020
Listen to Clarence // Music by Zachary James Watkins. Performed by Kronos with spoken word by Dr. Clarence B. Jones. // Online Premiere: January 15, 2021
Nasrin’s Dream // Music by Sahba Aminikia; Visuals by Pinar Demiral. Performed by Kronos // Online Premiere: January 26, 2021
FreshGrass Festival #FreshStreams // Excerpts from Kronos’ program Music for Change: Pete Seeger at 100, filmed in 2019 at the FreshGrass Festival // Online Premiere: February 11, 2021
Testimony // Music composed by Charlton Singleton for Kronos’ 50 For The Future. Filmed at Stanford University, Bing Concert Hall // Online Premiere: February 14, 2021
Kronos Music: The Future is Now // Students from 6 schools around the United States perform works from 50 for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire // Online Premiere: March 25, 2021
Carnegie Hall’s Voices of Hope Festival // Carnegie Hall presents a special digital program examining the life-affirming power of music and the arts during times of crisis. // Online Premiere: April 24, 2021
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